Fernandezia ionanthera [Rchb.f & Wars.] Schlechter 1920 Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Another Plant and flowerPhoto courtesy of Dale Borders
Plant and Flower ensitu, Cundinamarca Colombia 6/22/07 Common Name The Violet Column Fernandezia
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a miniature, pseudomonopodial epiphyte or occassional lithophyte in wet, cold, cloud forests at elevations of 2800 to 3150 meters with a leafy, branching stem with ovate-lanceolate, acute, shallowly concave, conduplicate below into the clasping base leaves with a sessile, axillary from the topmost leaf axils, single flowered inflorescence with minute floral bracts that occurs in the fall through spring.
Synonyms Centropetalum ionantherum [Rchb.f $ Warsc.] Kraenzl., Pflanzer 1923; *Nasonia ionanthera Rchb.f & Warsc. 1855
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Icones Orchidacearum Plate 661 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 432 Dodson 1982
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